U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will hold listening sessions in Lincoln and Oneida counties on Saturday, Jan. 9. Senator Feingold has pledged to hold listening sessions in all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties each year of his six-year term and this will be the senator’s 18th year of holding listening sessions. These sessions will mark the fifth and sixth listening sessions of 2010 and the 1,229th and 1,230th since 1993. If constituents need special accommodations at the listening sessions they should contact Senator Feingold’s Middleton office at 608-828-1200.

His Lincoln County listening session will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the Auditorium at the Tomahawk School Complex, 1048 E. Kings Rd., Tomahawk. The meeting will last up to an hour. His Oneida County listening session will be held at 6:15 p.m. in the Nicolet Theatre in the Learning Resources Center, Nicolet College, 5364 College Drive, Rhinelander. The meeting also will last up to an hour.

"I look forward to meeting with constituents in Lincoln and Oneida counties, as I learn more at these town meetings than I learn anywhere else," Feingold said. "In order for me to be an effective legislator, I need to hear from the people I represent and they deserve every opportunity to let me know directly what they think about a particular issue. This is democracy in action and I am grateful to all those who take time out of their busy schedules to come to my meetings and let me know about the issues important to them. The feedback I receive is essential to my job as a U.S. Senator."